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KDE 4.1.3 Release Announcement

KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.1.3 Codenamed "Change"

KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.1
Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and
Translation Updates

November 5, 2008. The KDE
Community today announced the immediate availability of "Change",
(a.k.a KDE 4.1.3), another
bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful
free desktop. Change is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It
ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration
programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork,
web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are
available in more than 50 languages.

As a service release, the
changelog
contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. Note that the changelog is
usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.1.3, you
can browse the Subversion log. The most significant changes are:

Two crashes fixed in the Dolphin filemanager.

A large number of bugfixes and optimizations in the KHTML HTML rendering component.

KDE 4.1.3 also ships a more complete set of translations.
To find out more about the KDE 4.1.x desktop and applications, please refer to the
KDE 4.1.0 and
KDE 4.0.0 release
notes. KDE 4.1.3 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.1.2 or earlier.
This release will be followed up by KDE 4.1.4 in December and
ultimately by a new feature release, KDE 4.2.0 this coming January.

Extragear

The KDE Extragear packages contains a number
of useful additional and alternative applications.
Since KDE 4.0.0, Extragear applications
are also part of regular KDE releases.
Extragear applications are KDE applications that are mature, but not part
of one of the other KDE packages.

Installing KDE 4.1.3 Binary Packages

Packagers.
Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 4.1.3
for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers
have done so.
Some of these binary packages are available for free download from KDE's http://download.kde.org.
Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available,
may become available over the coming weeks.

Compiling KDE 4.1.3

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software
community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that
donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and
contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing
documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are
gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free
and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among
KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms,
comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of
software titles in many categories including Internet and web
applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and
software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60
languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility
principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on
Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

Trademark Notices.
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registered trademarks of KDE e.V.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and
other countries.
All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are
the property of their respective owners.